Incumbent PresidentJoe Biden had repeatedly expressed his intent to run for re-election since 2021, although there was speculation in the first two years of his presidency that he might not seek a second term due to his age and low approval ratings.[17][18] Former Democratic House representatives, includingCarolyn Maloney,[19]Joe Cunningham,[20] andTim Ryan,[21] had publicly said Biden should not run. On July 28, 2022, RepresentativeDean Phillips became the first incumbent Democratic member of Congress to say President Biden should not run for re-election and called for "generational change" pointing to Biden's age.[22][23] There was also speculation that Biden might face a primary challenge, especially from a member of theDemocratic Party's progressive faction.[24][25]
After Democrats outperformed expectations in the2022 midterm elections, many believed the chances that Biden would run for and win his party's nomination had increased.[26][27] On April 25, 2023, Biden announced via a video that he would be running for re-election.[28] Eventually, three main primary opponents emerged; self-help authorMarianne Williamson declared her candidacy in March,[29]Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmental attorney,[30] declared in April,[31] while RepresentativeDean Phillips ofMinnesota declared in October.[32]
Phillips campaigned as a younger and more centrist alternative to Biden, who would be a stronger opponent to Trump. Phillips argued that Biden would be a weak general election candidate due to his age and low approval ratings, so he should pass the torch to a new generation.[33][34][35] Privately, Democrats shared his concerns.[36][37] Before launching his campaign, Phillips reportedly reached out to other elected Democratic officials, such as GovernorsGretchen Whitmer andJB Pritzker, to convince them to enter the presidential primary race to oppose Biden, but they declined to speak with him directly.[38][39]
Kennedy withdrew from the Democratic primaries inOctober 2023 to run as anindependent candidate.[43] Williamson suspended her campaign following theNevada primary in February 2024,[44] before unsuspending her campaign following theMichigan primary later that month.[45] On March 6, 2024, Phillips suspended his campaign and endorsed Biden.[46] Phillips received the second-highest number of delegates in the primaries of any candidate (four delegates gained).[13][47] Biden lostAmerican Samoa toventure capitalistJason Palmer,[f] becoming the first incumbent president to lose a contest while appearing on the ballot sinceJimmy Carter in1980.[48] However, he won every other contest by a large margin. Biden became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party on March 12, 2024, by securing over 1,968 pledged delegates.[49]
President Bidenwithdrew his candidacy on July 21, following a series ofage and health concerns, writing that doing so was "in the best interest of my party and the country". He endorsed Vice PresidentKamala Harris as his successor.[50] And though Biden had endorsed Harris as the new candidate at the top of the ticket, there was no obligation for the delegates to follow suit.[51] By the next day, Harris had secured the non-binding support of enough uncommitted delegates that were previously pledged to Biden to make her thepresumptive nominee.[52] Harris became the nominee following avirtual roll call with the support of approximately 97.21% of all the delegates and faced opposition from 52 delegates voting for other candidates which were counted as "present" as well as 79abstentions, most notably from RepresentativeMary Peltola, RepresentativeJared Golden, and SenatorJon Tester.[53][54][55] Harris became the first Democratic nominee to be nominated despite not actively campaigning in the primaries sinceHubert Humphrey in the1968 United States presidential election, and the first to be nominated without winning the primaries since the modern Democratic Party primary procedurewas created in 1972.
Write-in vote totals are excluded from the above election data reporting for the following states, and are added to the total number of votes for candidates for the purposes of candidate vote share calculations:[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
As of April 2024, more than 190 candidates have filed with theFederal Election Commission (FEC) to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2024.[63]
Following thewithdrawal of President Biden on July 21, 2024, the race became an open contest to be decided at the Democratic National Convention.[64]
On January 19, 2022, President Biden confirmed that Vice President Kamala Harris would again be his running mate in his 2024 re-election campaign.[128] Some Democrats expressed skepticism about Biden choosing Harris again as his running mate, as she had also seen similar low approval ratings to Biden. In January 2023,U.S. SenatorElizabeth Warren said in a radio interview that she supported Biden's reelection bid, but stopped short of supporting Harris.[129] She later clarified her position, saying she supported the Biden–Harris ticket.[130]
The following is a table of which candidates received ballot access in which states in the Democratic Party primaries.
indicates that the candidate was on the ballot for the primary contest. indicates that the candidate was a recognizedwrite-in candidate. indicates that the candidate did not appear on the ballot in that state's contest. indicates that a candidate withdrew before the election but was still listed on the ballot.
Ballot access in the 2024 Democratic presidential nominating contests
On February 4, theDemocratic National Committee approves a new primary calendar, moving South Carolina to February 3, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on February 6, Georgia on February 13, and Michigan on February 27. Iowa, which traditionally goes first, would then be held later in the primary season.[205][206] The DNC gives Georgia and New Hampshire an extended deadline of June to modify their state laws so they can comply with the new dates (New Hampshire state law mandates them to hold the first primary in the country, while Georgia state law requires them to hold both the Democratic and Republican primaries on the same day), but this remains unlikely to happen since both states have Republican-controlled state legislatures.[207]
On March 3, the DNC declares their full support for President Biden's re-election, stating they do not plan to host any official debates.[208]
On March 4, authorMarianne Williamson announces hercampaign for the Democratic presidential nomination as the first major primary challenger to incumbent President Biden.[209]
The same day, theIdaho Legislature passes House Bill 138, moving the state's presidential primary date to May while also eliminating the original primary date in March.[211][212]
On October 6, the DNC reaches a compromise with theIowa Democratic Party, allowing theIowa Democratic caucuses to be held first on January 15, 2024, but voting on presidential candidates would also be done via mail-in ballots until Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024.[223]
On October 9, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdraws from the Democratic primaries and launches an independent campaign.[224]
On October 16, the Biden campaign launches an account on Truth Social.[226]
On October 24, with New Hampshire state officials moving forward in accordance with their state law mandating them to hold the first primary in the country, denying the DNC's request to hold it after South Carolina's, Biden campaign managerJulie Chávez Rodriguez states that he will not appear on the New Hampshire primary ballot.[227]
On November 13, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences atDartmouth College and the Dartmouth Political Union co-host a discussion as part of their "Path to the Presidency" speaker series withDean Phillips to discuss his campaign and policy positions.[231][232]
On November 15, the New Hampshire presidential primary date is set for January 23, 2024, defying the DNC's planned schedule.[233]
On December 4,Arkansas election officials rule that news personality Cenk Uygur, a naturalized citizen who was born inTurkey, could not appear on the state's Democratic presidential primary ballot despite his argument that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution makes him eligible to run for president.[238]
The same day,Politico publishes an interview with Democratic Party presidential primary challengerJason Palmer, in which he touted his status as the youngest Democratic presidential candidate and one of the youngest candidates in either party. He called on Biden and all older lawmakers to "pass the torch" to a younger generation of political leaders such asGretchen Whitmer,Gavin Newsom, orJared Polis.[245]
On January 20, Phillips tellsAxios that he thinks it would be "impossible" for Biden to do the job for four more years. And even being so blunt as to say, "At that stage of life, it is impossible ultimately to conduct, to prosecute the office of the American presidency in the way that this country in the world needs right now. That is an absolute truth."[246]
On January 27, President Biden and Congressman Phillips speak at the South Carolina Democratic Party's First-in-the-Nation Celebration dinner in Columbia, South Carolina.[251]
On January 31,U.S. SenatorTina Smith seends a one-minute video to theWashington Press Club Foundation's annual congressional dinner "roasting" Representative Phillips over his campaign to challenge President Biden for the Democratic Party's nomination for president.[252][253]
On February 2, theWisconsin Supreme Court unanimously orders election officials to put Phillips on the presidential primary ballot after the Wisconsin Elections Commission had excluded him.[254]
On February 4, after his loss in the South Carolina primary, Phillips vowes to remain in the race as "a mission of principle".[256]
On February 5,Special CounselRobert Hur releases his report onBiden's handling of classified documents. He states that "no criminal charges are warranted" and that the probe "uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen."[257]
On March 6,Dean Phillips suspends his campaign and endorses Biden.[263] After the endorsement President Biden calls Phillips on the phone. Phillips says the two "had a wonderful conversation" that ended in an invitation to discuss the state of the 2024 race at theWhite House.[264][265]
On March 19, President Biden wins theArizona,Florida,Illinois,Kansas, andOhio primaries.[268] Despite having already dropped out, Dean Phillips wins three delegates in theOhio primary. Congressman Phillips was still on the ballot on election day and gained his delegates by meeting the 15% threshold of votes needed to receive a delegate in a congressional district in the state's2nd,6th, and14th districts.[269]
On April 27, President Biden wins all 25 of New Hampshire's pledged delegates in a party-backedfirehouse primary held by the New Hampshire Democratic Party at Saint Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics.[278][279]
On June 27, President Biden and former President Trump hold a general election debate hosted byCNN inAtlanta, prior to the nominating conventions.[297]
On July 15, the DNC sends an email asking delegates to indicate on a drop-down menu on who they will vote for: Joe Biden, Jason Palmer (who wonAmerican Samoa), Rep. Dean Phillips, or "uncommitted." Answers to that questionnaire reportedly essentially gave the DNC a whip count on how firm – or soft – support for Biden was among actual delegates.[299]
Also on July 21, RepresentativeDean Phillips proposes a straw poll of delegates ahead of the Democratic National Convention to determine the party's top four presidential contenders, who would then take part in four town halls outlining their platforms.[302] After the town halls, the delegates would vote to choose the nominee.[303][304]
On July 22, SenatorJoe Manchin rules out a campaign for president, stating that he would have preferred an open convention.[305]
Also on July 22, a majority of President Biden's pledged delegates pledge support for Harris, making her the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party.[306]
On July 24,Jason Palmer releases his delegates and encouraged them to vote for Harris at the convention.[308]
Also, on July 24, the Democratic National Committee votes to adopt new rules for an early virtual nomination vote in the first week of August. The new rules allowsuperdelegates to vote during the signature collection and on the first ballot of a virtual roll call for the presidential nomination without a candidate having won an overwhelming majority of pledged delegates earned by them in the primaries.[309][310][311]
On July 25, U.S. House RepresentativeJared Golden ofMaine's 2nd congressional district and co-chair of theBlue Dog Coalition for the 118th Congress tellsAxios he would "absolutely not" commit to voting for the Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in November and is "going to wait and see what she puts forward and what her vision for the future of the country is.".[312]
On August 2, Vice President Kamala Harris earns a majority of delegate votes in the DNC roll call.[54]
On August 3, theMinnesota Star Tribune reports that Phillips said, "If people write anything, I just hope that they might write if [Biden] had debated me then and he had been on one stage, unscripted, with a national audience, and he demonstrated that decline then, this would have been very different circumstances." He continued, "And that's what I was trying to do."[315]
On August 4, twenty-nineUncommitted delegates from eight states take part in a virtual roll call where they voted forPalestinian victims over Harris.[316]
On August 5, delegate voting closed, and Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the official presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.[53] 52 delegates voted abstained or voted against Harris, including RepresentativeMary Peltola, RepresentativeJared Golden, and SenatorJon Tester.[54]
On August 6, Harris chooses Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate.[136]
Biden declared his intent in January 2022 to run for re-election, keeping Kamala Harris as his running mate.[317] On September 15, he toldScott Pelley in aCBS60 Minutes interview that he had not yet committed to run.[318] In a private conversation with civil-rights activistAl Sharpton on October 3, he reportedly told Sharpton that he was seeking re-election.[319] On October 11, he toldJake Tapper in an interview onCNN that he would decide whether or not to seek re-election after the2022 midterm elections.[320]
Throughout 2022, several prominent Democrats publicly urged Biden not to run for a second term. On June 23, shortly after winning the Democratic nomination in theSouth Carolina gubernatorial race, former U.S. RepresentativeJoe Cunningham toldCNN that he believed Biden would be too old by the end of his second term and should not run in 2024. CNN pointed out that Biden had endorsed Cunningham in his2018 and2020 campaigns.[20] In July, U.S. RepresentativeDean Phillips ofMinnesota said he believed that Democrats should nominate someone from a younger generation in 2024, and fellow Minnesota RepresentativeAngie Craig agreed with him the following week.[21] On August 1, then-U.S. RepresentativeCarolyn Maloney toldThe New York Times that she thought Biden should not run in 2024 and that she believed he would not run. She later apologized and said that he should run again, though she reiterated her belief that he would not.[19] In September, U.S. Representative andOhio U.S. Senate nomineeTim Ryan similarly called for a "generational move" away from Biden during an interview with a local TV station;Forbes Magazine noted that Biden, who had endorsed Ryan, headlined a rally with him just hours after the interview aired.[21]
Democrats in Idaho, who held caucuses in 2012 and 2016 but switched to afirehouse primary by mail for the 2020 election, switched back to in-person caucuses due to the abolition of the presidential primary by theIdaho Legislature in 2023.[322] Similarly, the abolition of the state-run presidential primary in Missouri in 2022 caused Democrats in Missouri to switch to a closed, ranked-choice firehouse presidential primary for 2024.[323]
President Biden sent a letter on December 1, 2022, to theDemocratic National Committee (DNC), requesting that diversity should be emphasized in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries. On February 4, 2023, the DNC formally approved the new 2024 primary calendar, movingSouth Carolina to hold its race first on February 3, followed byNevada and New Hampshire on February 6. One member of the Rules and Bylaws Committee who supported this new plan, Lee Saunders, further said it will give a better representation of the composition of the country.[324] Members of theIowa Democratic Party and theNew Hampshire Democratic Party opposed the move, since they would no longer be the first two states to hold their races.[325] The move was also criticized by some progressives, who argued that the move was intended to benefit more moderate candidates.[326][327] On October 6, the DNC and the Iowa Democratic Party reached a compromise in which the in-person caucuses could still be held in January, but delegate-determining mail-in voting would be held throughSuper Tuesday, March 5.[223]
The DNC and the New Hampshire Democratic Party did not reach a compromise. In October 2023, the manager for the Biden campaign,Julie Chávez Rodriguez, confirmed in a letter to the chair of theNew Hampshire Democratic PartyRaymond Buckley that Biden would not appear on the primary ballot in order to comply with the DNC's calendar.[328] Pro-Biden New Hampshire Democrats, includingKathy Sullivan (the former chairwoman of the state Democratic party) and former RepresentativesPaul Hodes andCarol Shea-Porter, launched a formalwrite-in campaign on October 30.[329] There were no delegates at stake in the New Hampshire primary because the Democratic National Committee said state party officials violated national party rules by scheduling its contest earlier than allowed.[330] On January 8, 2024, after the Democratic national party dismissed the state ofNew Hampshire's upcoming primary as "meaningless" the New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Brendan O’Donnell fired off a cease-and-desist order to the DNC, saying that instructing state Democrats to "educate the public" that the primary is "meaningless" violates the state's voter suppression laws.[331]
The primaries inFlorida andDelaware were canceled, with Biden receiving all pledged delegates, while inAlaska,North Carolina,Tennessee,Mississippi, andIndiana, no candidates other than Biden appeared on the ballot, partially due to decisions by the state Democratic parties in those states.[332][333][334] InGuam, voters could only cast ballots for individuals elected to serve as national convention delegates, all of whom were pledged to support Biden.[335] The Phillips and Williamson campaigns criticized many of the decisions as undemocratic.[336][337] The primary challengers had not received the necessary number of signatures in Tennessee[338][339] and North Carolina,[340] while the Florida Democratic Party stated that the challengers did not reach out to them until November 29, 2023, one day before the Florida Secretary of State's November 30 deadline to submit candidates, and the state party had already made its submission ahead of the deadline before November 29.[341][342] An attorney who supported Phillips[y] questioned why the state party did not contact the challengers when it made its submission ahead of the deadline.[344]Andrew Yang who was assisting Phillips' cause toldABC News, "What's happening in Florida is important -- do we live in a democracy or not? If the Democrats can simply cancel their own primaries they should change their name to something else."[345] On February 2, theWisconsin Supreme Court unanimously ruled that election officials must include Phillips on the presidential primary ballot in Wisconsin.[346] Phillips won his lawsuit against State Justice Department attorneys representing the elections commission who were attempting to keep him off the ballot.[347]
Despite no incumbent president ever having participated in a primary season debate,[348] a June 2023 poll byUSA Today andSuffolk University found that 8 in 10 Democratic voters wanted to see Biden debate the other major Democratic candidates. Among Biden supporters, 72% said they would like to see him debate in the primaries with other major Democratic candidates.[349] Despite all this, the DNC did not support hosting any official debates, and Biden did not participate in the2024 Democratic Party presidential debates and forums unsanctioned by the DNC.[350][351]
On May 5, 2023,Symone Sanders, the former spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, stated onMSNBC: "The Democratic National Committee will not facilitate a primary process [in 2024]. There will be no debate stage for Robert Kennedy or Marianne Williamson or anybody else."[352]
Phillips accused representatives of the Biden campaign of using access to pressure liberal media outlets intoblackballing and not platforming him.[353]The New York Times reported that during his campaign, Phillips "found himself “deplatformed,” taken off the ballot in some states, and rarely invited on television to make his case."[354] Phillips argued that the Democratic establishment was choking off his challenge because it couldn't accept that ‘Biden is going to get creamed’ by Trump in November.[355] Phillips also accused the Democratic National Committee of actively obstructing Democrats and Independents from ballot access — "bleeding campaigns dry" by handing out lawsuits against non-incumbent candidates and "absurd signature requirements."[356] When asserting that his campaign was hampered by ballot access policies and a lack of candidate debates, Phillips issued an apology toBernie Sanders. He regretted his previous disbelief inSanders's 2016 campaign's complaints of biased rules by the DNC governing the presidential primary and admitted that he now thought Sanders was right.[357]
Phillips also argued that Democrats who had concerns about President Biden were "suppressed and disenfranchised" during the 2024 primaries.[358] Phillips said that the DNC's letter stating thatNew Hampshire's presidential primary was 'meaningless' and not to seat any delegates to the convention based on the results was, "one of the most egregious affronts to democracy that I’ve ever seen in my entire lifetime as an American, period."[331] In a statement toPolitico, Phillips called the handling of theprimary process by theFlorida Democratic Party a "blatant act of electoral corruption" and demanded Biden "condemn and immediately address" it. He also said "Americans would expect the absence of democracy inTehran, notTallahassee. The intentional disenfranchisement of voters runs counter to everything for which our Democratic Party and country stand. Our mission as Democrats is to defeatauthoritarians, not become them."[359] During an appearance onMeet the Press NOW, Phillips criticized Biden's re-election effort, stating that "The president is not a threat to democracy, but running and suppressing other candidates is a threat when you are behind in the polls, like he is." Phillips also added, "He’s a good man and someone I respect. But this delusion that he can win is a threat to democracy."[360]
Kennedy accused the Democratic Party of "fixing the process so it makes it almost impossible to have democracy function" and "disenfranchising the Democratic voters from having any choice in who becomes the Democratic nominee."[361][362]
Kennedy's campaign manager, formerOhio Democratic congressmanDennis Kucinich, accused the DNC of attempting a "hidden-ball trick" by not publicizing a public meeting of the Rules and Bylaws committee where resolutions dealing with ballot access and delegate selection rules for Georgia, Iowa, New Hampshire, and other states were expected to be presented. In a release, Kucinich said, "The DNC wants to carry on without public and media attention."[363][364]
Williamson accused the Democratic National Committee of trying to "suppress" her candidacy in favor of incumbent President Joe Biden.[365]
FormerSecretary of housing and urban developmentJulian Castro alleged onMSNBC that potential Democratic rivals and even staffers "got the message" that their careers would be "blackballed" if they challenged Biden in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[366]
With Biden out, on July 21, Phillips proposed a straw poll of delegates ahead of the Democratic National Convention to determine the party's top four presidential contenders. Those four candidates would then take part in four town halls outlining their plans for the White House.[367] Then, after all those town halls, the delegates would vote to choose their candidate to determine the nominee.[368][304]
Following Biden's suspension of his campaign and subsequent endorsement ofKamala Harris on July 21, Williamson called for an open convention, arguing that the vice president should not be "anointed to the position of nominee."[369]
On July 23,Black Lives Matter released a statement opposing the party's decision to nominate Harris for president without her participating as a candidate in a primary election, describing the process as "anointing" Harris as the nominee without a public vote.[370][371][372] The organization argued that installing Harris as the Democratic nominee without a primary vote undermineddemocratic principles, stating that such a move "would make the modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites."[373] BLM called on theDemocratic National Committee to host a virtual primary to allow voter participation in the nomination process.[374]
RepresentativeNancy Pelosi toldSemafor on September 18 that Harris earned her spot atop the Democratic presidential ticket because "We had an open primary, and she won it. Nobody else got in the race."[375][376] However, in the aftermath of the presidential election, Pelosi blamed Harris's loss on Biden's late exit and the lack of an open Democratic primary.[377]
On December 6, 2023,TYT Network hosted a forum featuring primary candidatesWilliamson,Phillips andUygur. Biden was invited but declined to attend. The candidates responded to theGOP debate being held inTuscaloosa, which was scheduled to end at the same time. The discussion was moderated byJohn Iadarola, the main host ofThe Damage Report on the same network.[378]
On January 8, 2024, Williamson and Phillips participated in a debate hosted byNew England College inManchester, New Hampshire.[379] To qualify, candidates needed to be registered on the New Hampshire primary ballot and poll at more than five percent.[380] The debate was broadcast onsatellite radio bySirius XM[381] and was moderated by Josh McElveen, who was the former political director ofWMUR.[382]
On January 12, 2024,NewsNation hosted a second forum featuring Williamson, Phillips and Uygur. Biden was invited but did not attend. The discussion was moderated byDan Abrams.[383]
On January 18, 2024,Free & Equal Elections Foundation hosted a debate at Chelsea Television Studios inNew York City.[384] The debate was originally planned to be held in Los Angeles.Christina Tobin moderated the debate.[385]All candidates registered for the ballot "in at least four states" were invited: Biden, Phillips, Williamson, Uygur, Gabriel Cornejo, Stephen Lyons,Jason Palmer, and Frank Lozada.[385] However, only the latter four candidates chose to participate.[386]
On January 19, 2024, Phillips and Williamson were part of a forum held at the Artisan Hotel in Tuscan Village,Salem, New Hampshire. It was hosted by theRotary Club and the Southern New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce.[387]
Peter Daou, political activist, musician, and author.[411] (previously her campaign manager, then resigned and campaigned forCornel West before resigning there; Independent)[412]
This is an overview of the money used by each campaign as it is reported to theFederal Election Commission (FEC). Totals raised include individual contributions, loans from the candidate, and transfers from other campaign committees. Individual contributions are itemized (catalogued) by the FEC when the total value of contributions by an individual comes to more than $200. The last column, Cash On Hand, shows the remaining cash each campaign had available for its future spending as of December 31, 2023. Campaign finance reports for the first quarter of 2024 will become available on April 15, 2024.[481]
This table does not include contributions made toSuper PACs or party committees supporting the candidate. Each value is rounded up to the nearest dollar.
Candidate who withdrew prior to December 31
Candidate who withdrew following December 31
Overview of campaign financing for candidates in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries
^2,349 of 4,696 delegates needed to win any subsequent ballots at acontested convention lasting more than a single round of balloting. The number of extra unpledged delegates (superdelegates), who after the first ballot at a contested convention participate in any subsequently needed nominating ballots (together with the 3,949 pledged delegates), is expected to be 747, but the exact number of superdelegates is still subject to change due to possible deaths, resignations, accessions, or elections as a pledged delegate.[needs update][1][self-published source?]
^Write-in vote totals are excluded from the above election data reporting for the following states, and are added to the total number of votes for candidates for the purposes of candidate vote share calculations:[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
^The calculation for percentage of votes excludes over/undervotes included by primary sources and accounts for write-ins included by the primary sources as well as additional write-in votes not included in their tracking, which have been reported by Edison Research in Massachusetts, Illinois, Washington, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and New Jersey.
^New Hampshire's delegates will not be awarded through this unofficial primary.[138] The early date violates the DNC-approved calendar, which confirmed South Carolina as the first primary state.[139]
^Iowa's delegates were awarded through mail-in voting.[140]
^Originally scheduled for March 19. The state party only nominated Joe Biden as a candidate, canceling the primary.
^Originally scheduled for April 2. Only Joe Biden made the primary ballot, canceling the primary.
^The attorney,Michael Steinberg, represented himself independently in the interest of getting Phillips on the ballot; he was not appointed by Phillips.[343]
^Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined.
^Biden's principal campaign committee, Biden for President, was also used for his earlier 2020 presidential campaign. Some of these figures, therefore, include money left over from that previous candidacy.
^These figures include data following Kennedy's withdrawal from the Democratic primary.
^"President": R. Boddie,Terrisa Bukovinac, Eban Cambridge, Gabriel Cornejo, Mark Stewart Greenstein, Tom Koos, Paul V. LaCava, Star Locke, Frankie Lozada, Stephen P. Lyons, Raymond Michael Moroz, Derek Nadeau, Mando Perez-Serrato, Donald Picard,Paperboy Love Prince, Richard Rist,Vermin Supreme, John Vail Received votes as a write-in not counted as "scatter": Nikki Haley (running as a Republican), Donald Trump (running as a Republican),Vivek Ramaswamy (ran as a Republican),Ron DeSantis (ran as a Republican),Chris Christie (ran as a Republican), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (running as an Independent), CeaseFire (not a candidate), Bernie Sanders (not a candidate)
^Gabriel Cornejo, Superpayaseria Crystalroc, Brent Foutz, John Haywood, Stephen Alan Leon, Frankie Lozada, Stephen Lyons, Armando Perez-Serrato, Donald Picard, Mark R. Prascak
^Frank Lozada, Stephen Lyons, Armando Perez-Serrato
^"President": R. Boddie, Eban Cambridge, Gabriel Cornejo, Stephen P. Lyons, Armando "Mando" Perez-Serrato Recognized write-in candidates: Willie Felix Carter, President Cristina Nicole Grappo, Richard Gutierrez, James Mark Merts, Reed Michaelsen, Wayne Anthony Pope Sr.
^Gabriel Cornejo, Frankie Lozada, Stephen P. Lyons, Armando "Mando" Perez-Serrato
^Eban Cambridge, Gabriel Cornejo, Frankie Lozada, Armando "Mando" Perez-Serrato,Cenk Uygur[u]
^"Delegate Selection Plan for the 2024 Democratic National Convention"(PDF).Delaware Dems. RetrievedFebruary 7, 2024.Pursuant to Delaware State Law, if the Delaware Democratic Party submits the name of only one Presidential Candidate, and no other candidates file for the ballot, the state run presidential primary shall be cancelled.
^Lloyd, Sophie (August 23, 2023)."Jamie Lee Curtis' Mask Photo Sparks Uproar".Newsweek.Archived from the original on October 28, 2023. RetrievedOctober 27, 2023.She recently announced her support for Democratic primary candidate Marianne Williamson on Instagram and has been championing the writers' and actors' strikes in Hollywood, led by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA.
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![Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democrat nominee, and former U.S. Secretary of State (2009–2013), U.S. Senator from New York (2001–2009), and First Lady of the United States (1993–2001) (endorsed Biden, then Harris after Biden's withdrawal)[73][74]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aHillary_Clinton_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg)
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![Dean Phillips, U.S. Representative from MN-03 and candidate for president in 2024 (endorsed Biden, then Harris after Biden's withdrawal)[84]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aRep._Dean_Phillips%2c_official_photo_(2021).jpg)
![Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado (2019–Present) (endorsed Biden, then Harris after Biden's withdrawal)[85]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aJared_Polis_official_photo.jpg)
![Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania (endorsed Biden, then Harris after Biden's withdrawal)[72]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aJosh_Shapiro_in_2019.jpg)
![Gretchen Whitmer,Governor of Michigan (endorsed Biden, then Harris after Biden's withdrawal)[86]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aGretchen_Whitmer_Portrait.jpg)
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Washington, D.C.
Maryland
Minnesota
![Terrisa Bukovinac, former president of Democrats for Life of America,[106][107] founder of Pro-Life San Francisco,[108] and the founder of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU)[109](withdrew June 17, 2024)[110]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aTerrisa_Bukovinac_2023_(cropped).jpg)
![Cenk Uygur, co-creator of The Young Turks, co-founder of Justice Democrats, and Democrat candidate for CA-25 in 2020[111][112][m] (withdrew March 6, 2024)[114]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aCenk_Uygur_(27903285441)_(cropped).jpg)
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![Paperboy Prince, artist and community activist[117]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aPaperboy_Love_Prince_with_flowers.jpg)
![Vermin Supreme, performance artist, and activist; former Libertarian Party Judicial Committee member (2020–2022)[118]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aVermin_Supreme_August_2019.jpg)
![Jerome Segal, research scholar and Bread and Roses Party nominee for president in 2020[126] (ran for U.S. Senate in Maryland)[127]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aJerome_Segal(Cropped).jpg)
indicates that the candidate was on the ballot for the primary contest.
indicates that the candidate was a recognizedwrite-in candidate.
indicates that the candidate did not appear on the ballot in that state's contest.
indicates that a candidate withdrew before the election but was still listed on the ballot.
